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History and Overview
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History and Overview

Michael Alessandri, Lynda A. Heiden and Melisa Dunbar-Welter
Introduction to Clinical Psychology, pp.3-19
Springer US

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Clinical psychology has grown tremendously since 1896, the year Lightner Witmer founded the world’s first psychological clinic at the University of Pennsylvania (Reisman, 1976). While once associated merely with clinic-based evaluation and treatment of childhood learning problems, the field of clinical psychology has expanded into a wide range of client populations, clinical activities, and work settings.

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